Africa, North Africa & Middle East

by Gaiaitalia.com English #HumanRights twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #HRW According to HRW official site islamist armed groups and security forces have left deads and created widespread fear and displacement in the northern Sahel Region in Burkina Faso, as Human Rights Watch wrote in a press report released the last 22nd, march. According to the report the violence has forced tens of ...

by Gaiaitalia.com #Sudan twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #Africa According to Reuters a Sudanese man died in detention after being arrested in connection with protests in eastern Sudan. The man was a 36-year-old teacher who was arrested from his home on Thursday 31st, january after protests in Khashm el-Girba in eastern Sudan. His family members told Reuters security officials told them that the man died ...

by Gaiaitalia.com #Egypt twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #Africa On Dec.15th Egyptian volunteers started the clean-up of the Nile river in Egyptian capital. the volunteers’ clean-up is part of the Very Nile project to clean the ancient waterway. Volunteers removed a vast amount of plastic waste, sufficient to be contained in 30 boats. Plastic waste was mixed with water lilies, algae. According to local ...

by G.G. #Tunisia twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #Africa Is th first time in Arabic countries and it’s Tunisia to write history. The north african country’s cabinet – the first among Arab nations – approved on Nov. 25 the law of gender equality in inheritance. The law now must survive the attacks of the islamist conservative movement Ennahda during the discussion in ...

by G.G. #Briefs twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #Ebola Democratic Republic of Congo‘s authorities said militia violence in the country is hampering efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak. According to US media, militians killed 11 civilians and two health workers on Oct. 20 in two eastern cities of the country. WHO said the outbreak, which has left around 120 deaths, will getting worse ...

di G.G. #Middleeast twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #Yemen Yemenis citizens are at big risk to starvation in the next few months if the war will continue, according to United Nations statements. The famine might strike very soon and up to 13 million people are at real risk of starvation if the war in the country is not halted (somebody must talk to ...

by Gaiaitalia.com English #Mali twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #Africa At least 20 people were killed in central Mali after a truck fell into a river after a suspected brake failure late on Monday night according to informations provided by the Malian government on Wednesday morning. The accident occured in the West African country’s Mopti region. Emergency services rescued 63 people, according to ...

by HRW #Africa twitter@gaiaitalia_eng #Politics According to HRW official’s site news Government’s security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo used live ammunition and teargas to disperse largely peaceful political opposition rallies during candidate registration in early August 2018. Authorities also restricted the movement of opposition leaders, arrested dozens of opposition supporters, and prevented one presidential aspirant, Moïse Katumbi, from entering ...